On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:03:31PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:01:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Using a UTF-8 locale, I've been finding many manpages using incorrect > > characters. Groff converts many of these characters to reasonable > > characters in ASCII locales, but some things break in UTF-8 locales. > > One other thought has occurred to me while working on fixing certain > parts of man-db's locale support. Sooner or later, when groff 2 is > released (but not beforehand!), we're going to have to move towards > having all man pages encoded in UTF-8. For most languages this probably > isn't too bad: you just use de_DE.UTF-8 rather than de, or whatever > (although I'm not sure how that'd work for languages with multiple > regional variants). It's going to be a royal pain for English, though, > because currently we just put things directly in /usr/share/man, meaning > the C locale, and there's no C.UTF-8, probably for good reasons. > en_US.UTF-8 would be a poor choice because we also need en_GB.UTF-8 and > so on. AIUI, only ASCII is valid in the C locale anyway. Setting the top bit is an error. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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